Music | Live Review
Beth Malone: Tonight, there are moments of panic. Body to body, sweat on sweat. Even the skinniest of asses can’t squeeze their way through the sold-out Acad...
Music | Feature
Milo McLaughlin: Errors – Salut! France Errors’ seemingly effortless, organic blend of live instruments and laptops makes for a stupendously good live sho...
Paul Neeson: Those who have gathered early enough this evening to catch Copy Haho [**] appear to consider them nothing more than an unnecessary divergence from the...
Stuart McHugh: The Vaselines, fronted by Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, had a shortlived career in the late 1980s, retaining a cult status in their native Scotland ...
Nick Mitchell: RememberRemember's (***) Graeme Ronald chose his new musical moniker wisely, because by the end of every 'song' (in the loosest possible sense) the mi...
Finbarr Bermingham: Given the challenge of warming up for the irrepressible Andrew Bird are Baltimore post-rockers Human Bell (***). Appearances are deceiving as these He...
Beth Malone: Mara Carlyle (***) is a pixie; her soft, clean vocals and coquettish banter are both demure and relaxing. She should perform at intimate oak-paneled t...
Records | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: Most agree that the indie-fication of pop has been a change for the better. Except, that is, when bands like The Pigeon Detectives bring their knuckle...
Records | Album Review
Ali Maloney: Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the...
Beth Malone: Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to pro...
Ali Maloney: Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic...
Ali Maloney: Remember the end of Blazing Saddles? When the big cowboy punch-up finale spills over into the studio next door where a load of tap-dancing top hatters...
Nick Mitchell: It may seem exaggerated to call this a comeback, given that The Futureheads only crashed on to the scene with their self-titled debut some four years ...
Music
Matt Gollock: "Every record I promise not to, and this is the first record where I’ve been strong enough not to peek." Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu is responding ...
Finbarr Bermingham: Remember those AOL advertisements that ran just a short while ago? "Is the Internet a good or a bad thing?" they asked us in rather one-dimensional fa...
